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On Jul 11, 2013, at 7:27 AM, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> wrote:

> I could imagine that we could stash away a vimage stack just for this =
purpose.
> yould set it up on boot and leave it detached until you need it.
>=20
> you just need to switch the interfaces over to the new stack on panic =
and put them into 'poll' mode.

That sounds like a rather clever solution to this problem (OS X doesn't =
support vimage, despite repeated attempts on my part to change that).

How much work do you think it would take to bang out a proof of concept? =
 Is anyone up to the challenge?  Any incentives I can provide?  This =
would be really useful. :-)

- Jordan